About the day » Friday March 24, 1780Calender converter

• Bonne Jacobsz. Waterlander, Oudeschoot († 1849)
• Aise Andries Aardema († 1841)
• Antje Barendsd Nauta, Westzaan († 1802)
• Caroline Victoire ISAERT, Bollezeele... Hauts de France († 1823)
• Aize Andries (Ayse) Aardema, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Akke Oenzes (Aukjen) Helder, Oudega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1848)
• Anthonie Bensink, Harderwijk († 1815)
• Baukje Nammens, Jislum, Blija, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Nauta, Westzaan, Noord Holland
• Baukje Nammens, Jislum

• Frances Colyer (68)
• Cornelius Loijesteijn, Wassenaar
• Erik Olsen Moen Ørsund (75), Sunndal, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
• Cornelis Cornelissen, Harderwijk
• Frans Xavier Van Montfort Tettnang (57), Mariabrunn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Antoine PETIT (81), Créquy, 62257, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
• Ebenezer Cheney (80), Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Franz Xaver Fürst Von Montfort (57), Mariabrunn
• Anne Marie GISELMANN (45), Kembs, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Anna Maria Meijerinck (Meijering, Maijring) (45), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1755 » Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom († 1827)
• 1762 » Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer († 1830)
• 1775 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer († 1835)
• 1782 » Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter († 1836)
• 1796 » John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician († 1878)
• 1796 » Zulma Carraud, French author († 1889)
• 1803 » Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician († 1882)
• 1808 » Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano († 1836)
• 1809 » Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic († 1882)
• 1809 » Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author († 1837)

• 1684 » Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband
• 1684 » Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)
• 1773 » Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)
• 1776 » John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)
• 1824 » Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)
• 1838 » Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)
• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
• May 19 » New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
• August 22 » James Cook's ship HMSResolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
• October 16 » American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
• October 16 » The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
• November 9 » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.

The temperature on March 24, 1780 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.